HTTP 202 — Accepted

The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed

When to use it

Use status 202 when this is the correct HTTP response semantic: The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed

Request and response example

GET /resource HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-Type: application/json

Related status codes

200, 201, 203, 204

References

MDN · RFC 9110